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'Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus', illustrated by Paul Nash (1932)
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The Bodleian and the King
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Digitising objects
Самовар (РСФСР/Афганистан, ок. 1925)
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Winchester College in the 17th Century
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The Moynaq Canned Fish combine (Uzbekistan)
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Advert for soap
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Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole reproduced in E. B. Tylor’s article, ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post...’
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Celestial globe clock, Augsburg, 1584
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The Danby Gate (Oxford, 1632-3): a portal between two worlds
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The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Ruin
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BSH8: Silver stater of Soloi (Cilicia), c. 440–420 BC.
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Mappa Mundi
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Thomas Hobbes
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Map of Assyrian Empire (824 BC and 671 BC)
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The early modern siege
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Stomach and digestive system
BSH17: Silver jug handles, from the Black Sea hoard
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European bellicosity, 1100-1700
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The five orders as sets of mathematical proportions: Hans Blum, 1550
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Xerxes and the Persians in "300".
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What was printed in the 15th century?
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